Akihiro Iwamatsu

Overview

Best Publications

• A caspase-activated DNase that degrades DNA during apoptosis, and its inhibitor ICAD

  Masato Enari;Hideki Sakahira;Hideki Yokoyama;Katsuya Okawa

  4536
  Citations

• Regulation of myosin phosphatase by Rho and Rho-associated kinase (Rho-kinase)

  Kazushi Kimura;Masaaki Ito;Mutsuki Amano;Kazuyasu Chihara

  3621
  Citations

• Complementary DNA for a novel human interleukin (BSF-2) that induces B lymphocytes to produce immunoglobulin

  Toshio Hirano;Kiyoshi Yasukawa;Hisashi Harada;Tetsuya Taga

  2802
  Citations

• Signaling from Rho to the actin cytoskeleton through protein kinases ROCK and LIM-kinase.

  Midori Maekawa;Toshimasa Ishizaki;Shuken Boku;Naoki Watanabe

  2007
  Citations

• Identification of a factor that links apoptotic cells to phagocytes

  Rikinari Hanayama;Masato Tanaka;Keiko Miwa;Azusa Shinohara

  1576
  Citations

• The SRA protein Np95 mediates epigenetic inheritance by recruiting Dnmt1 to methylated DNA

  Jafar Sharif;Masahiro Muto;Shin-ichiro Takebayashi;Isao Suetake

  1400
  Citations

• Rho-associated kinase, a novel serine/threonine kinase, as a putative target for small GTP binding protein Rho

  T. Matsui;M. Amano;T. Yamamoto;K. Chihara

  1368
  Citations

• The small GTP-binding protein Rho binds to and activates a 160 kDa Ser/Thr protein kinase homologous to myotonic dystrophy kinase.

  Toshimasa Ishizaki;Midori Maekawa;Kazuko Fujisawa;Katsuya Okawa

  1294
  Citations

• CRMP-2 binds to tubulin heterodimers to promote microtubule assembly.

  Yuko Fukata;Tomohiko J. Itoh;Toshihide Kimura;Céline Ménager

  867
  Citations

• A novel signaling molecule, p130, forms stable complexes in vivo with v-Crk and v-Src in a tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent manner.

  R Sakai;A Iwamatsu;N Hirano;S Ogawa

  802
  Citations

• Actin polymerization is induced by Arp2/3 protein complex at the surface of Listeria monocytogenes.

  Matthew D. Welch;Akihiro Iwamatsu;Timothy J. Mitchison

  801
  Citations

• Rac1 and Cdc42 Capture Microtubules through IQGAP1 and CLIP-170

  Masaki Fukata;Takashi Watanabe;Jun Noritake;Masato Nakagawa

  789
  Citations

• The Human Arp2/3 Complex Is Composed of Evolutionarily Conserved Subunits and Is Localized to Cellular Regions of Dynamic Actin Filament Assembly

  Matthew D. Welch;Angela H. DePace;Suzie Verma;Akihiro Iwamatsu

  651
  Citations

• Identification of a novel phosphorylation site on histone H3 coupled with mitotic chromosome condensation.

  Hidemasa Goto;Yasuko Tomono;Kozo Ajiro;Hidetaka Kosako

  640
  Citations

• A novel membrane glycoprotein, SHPS-1, that binds the SH2-domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2 in response to mitogens and cell adhesion.

  Y Fujioka;T Matozaki;T Noguchi;A Iwamatsu

  628
  Citations

• Identification of a putative target for Rho as the serine-threonine kinase protein kinase N

  Mutsuki Amano;Hideyuki Mukai;Yoshitaka Ono;Kazuyasu Chihara

  610
  Citations

• Folliculin encoded by the BHD gene interacts with a binding protein, FNIP1, and AMPK, and is involved in AMPK and mTOR signaling

  Masaya Baba;Seung-Beom Hong;Nirmala Sharma;Michelle B. Warren

  572
  Citations

• Polo-like kinase 1 phosphorylates cyclin B1 and targets it to the nucleus during prophase

  Fumiko Toyoshima-Morimoto;Eri Taniguchi;Nobuko Shinya;Akihiro Iwamatsu

  518
  Citations

• BLNK Required for Coupling Syk to PLCγ2 and Rac1-JNK in B Cells

  Masamichi Ishiai;Mari Kurosaki;Rajita Pappu;Katsuya Okawa

  465
  Citations

• Katanin, a Microtubule-Severing Protein, Is a Novel AAA ATPase that Targets to the Centrosome Using a WD40-Containing Subunit

  James J Hartman;Jeff Mahr;Karen McNally;Katsuya Okawa

  464
  Citations